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Newspaper of the LSE Students' UnionWed, 14 Mar 2018 18:30:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Comment on Fight Night by Mike Phttps://beaveronline.co.uk/fight-night/#comment-279
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:30:00 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=29579#comment-279To the unnamed student who wrote this article – I hope you discover a better hobby than writing this sort of drivel.

Sincerely,
Your careers officer

]]>Comment on Political correctness has gone too far at LSE. by anonhttps://beaveronline.co.uk/political-correctness-gone-far-lse/#comment-278
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:06:12 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=29129#comment-278id like to point out that voting conservative does not make you a tory, in my eyes (my own perception) rather just that youve been deceived by the perpetuated media and proven lies (how is it not illegal for politicians to lie!?). The tories are the standing members of the conservative party and their financial backers, who evidently have a greater interest in clinging to power than legitimately representing the views of their constituents. indeed thousands of people have literally died from being deemed fit for work when they are completely unable and having their support stripped from them. not to mention the NHS which the torys have been consistently selling off. you say a private health care system might not be so bad? look at the targets and achievements of the NHS over the last 20 years, the trends are uncanny. competition isnt about quality of care, its about profit. Not to say that the labour party are saints (indeed some could be better suited in my prior described conservative party) but historically it has been the party of social change to benefit the masses not the most privileged. as such by being offended by the term tory scum you are in fact yourself taking part in this over political correctness which you so despise. im an anarchist, i dont believe in any of it ever working. what we need is human level cooperation, love and understanding.
]]>Comment on Calcutta Makes the Cut by ...https://beaveronline.co.uk/calcutta-makes-cut/#comment-275
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:59:05 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=29053#comment-275that was the whole point of the title
]]>Comment on Calcutta Makes the Cut by Charliehttps://beaveronline.co.uk/calcutta-makes-cut/#comment-274
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:56:52 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=29053#comment-274I guess you could say it makes the (Cal)cut(ta)
]]>Comment on Dear White People: no melanin, no opinion. by Tonyr Omabarianhttps://beaveronline.co.uk/dear-white-people-no-melanin-no-opinion/#comment-269
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:07:30 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=27103#comment-269uh, no.
]]>Comment on Reflections on the LSESU by Andrewhttps://beaveronline.co.uk/reflections-on-the-lsesu/#comment-264
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:46:09 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=28515#comment-264The reason why the SU has a falling attendance is because it is perceived as an insider’s club for a hyper-sensitive, centre-left group of students who don’t share the concerns of the rest of the body. The Myanmar debate was well-attended because it was an important political and humanitarian issue at the time. Looking further back, the famous LSESU student protests in the Sixties were on key issues such as de-colonisation and segregation, which capture the public interest in a way in which debates on water fountains and the like cannot.

This is not to mention the fact that a lot of events/services that truly matter to a student’s education (which is why they’re paying tuition for!) have to be resolved at a departmental level. I’m not going to raise the lack of contact hours within the History department, or the fact that one of my teachers is an imbecile PhD, with the SU. However, if the SU were to put forward a motion proposing that imbecile PhDs were to be banned from teaching, I’d be more than happy to go to that debate.

]]>Comment on Reflections on the LSESU by Andrew Farrellhttps://beaveronline.co.uk/reflections-on-the-lsesu/#comment-260
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:52:59 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=28515#comment-260Delighted to hear that there is now a Halls Bursary Scheme in place. Oddly this was not supported by the SU when it was first proposed by LSE, for reasons that I suspect were more to do with other dissatisfactions with what were then my areas of responsibility. But whatever the reasons were, recognising that living costs are a big issue – if not a bigger issue – than fees and that helping students from most challenging backgrounds have affordable and safe residences is important to widening access.
]]>Comment on “Do You Feel Your Student Satisfaction Rising?” by Andrewhttps://beaveronline.co.uk/feel-student-satisfaction-rising/#comment-257
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:36:14 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=28064#comment-257Great article. I’m doing my second degree at LSE, and I still struggle to see what sort of things are sufficiently serious for the university to deserve to land right at the bottom of the tables. Most unis in the UK are like this. Maybe it’s the higher % of non-UK students who have higher expectations? Besides, on a purely factual point, students shouldn’t be using administrative maladies to blame the quality of academic teaching in their department.
]]>Comment on Boycott NSS Campaign Gathers Steam by Selina Swifthttps://beaveronline.co.uk/boycott-nss-campaign-gathers-steam/#comment-256
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:39:07 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=28309#comment-256Very misleading headline which suggests that the Beaver supports the NSS Boycott. A few posters stuck on the back of toilet doors, and a Facebook page with 63 likes (ATTOW) is hardly the epitome of ‘gathering steam’. In the last 50% of the article, it is highlighted that actually there is no longer a connection between the NSS and TEF; and so, boycotting the NSS contributes nothing to the motive of undermining the TEF. So, even if the NSS boycotters’ campaign were to be gathering steam, their train would be headed to the wrong destination. I completely agree that the TEF is a very threatening framework, and I believe that these campaigners are focusing on an extremely important cause, i.e. preventing tuition fees from rising. However, this energy needs to be reinvested into more direct ways to make a genuine impact on the place of the TEF in the UK.
]]>Comment on Just Mercy – A Response to the Prayer Incident by Anonymous 3https://beaveronline.co.uk/just-mercy-alternative-response-prayer-incident/#comment-252
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:04:42 +0000https://beaveronline.co.uk/?p=27655#comment-252So by underscoring the fact that the accused is black, she ought never lose her job despite a misdemeanour? This premise is ridiculously patronising to black people. You’re implying that because of the social circumstances of the security guard e.g. the colour of her skin and her wage bracket, she ought to be pardoned for her wrongs. This is such a flawed analysis.
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